That's the "Imma 'burn' this ISO over to this USB flash drive here..." variety. So no wonder it botched up.
The flash drive I have is:
1. boot from a liveCD
2. install it into the flash drive as it was a regular HDD/SSD
3. ???
4. PROFIT!!!
and that works much better than any of those "specifically for USB flash drives" installations. No wonder, as those are meant to be an alternative to a liveCD most of the time, with not much regard most other things.

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I've had good luck with Unetbootin, although yeah. I don't think I've tried persistent storage all that much. IIRC, it throws it in a squashfs file rather than making a separate partition and mounting it.

ok, so I've got a 1055t in the office up and running. I'm working into locating one of the 8350s at the office too.

Currently both 8350s are off but the 3770k is running, I think it'll do over 9... 8000 if I manage to have it running 24/7 for more than a couple of days (there's some heavy rain in my area). I'll make sure to bring the 8350s on for the challenge though.

also, after 12 hours of usage the cooling pad has dropped temps 10 degrees mind you i had to take the backing off of the laptop (the panel that covers the memory and HDD) as there is no venting underneath the laptop, but the laptop isnt going to be moved much hence the overkill cooling pad and removed panel. I hope to run 24/7 on the lappy now